Frances Malthouse Malthouse's work has been on my radar for some time and although she is making more sculptural work these days,
her previous use of photographs still appears in some interesting ways.
, these include Rasheed Araeen's Chaaryaar (1968/2014), a sizeable sculpture
of different - coloured cube - shaped wood frames; Hassan Sharif's series
of documentary
photographs with the self - explanatory title Drawing Squares on the Floor
Using a Cube (1982); Saloua Raouda Choucair's small carved - wood sculpture Poem (1963 — 5); and Dóra Maurer's Seven Rotations 1 — 6 (1979), an infinity - mirror - like set
of photographic self - portraits, in which Maurer starts by holding a blank square, which in the second in the series is replaced by the
previous photograph, and so on.
By painting layer upon layer
of whites and off - whites over silkscreened elements
used in
previous works — monochrome forms taken from reproductions, enlargements
of details
of photographs, screens, and polaroids
of his own paintings — he accretes the surface
of his pressurized paintings while apparently voiding their very substance.